Seems Like Wii U Games WIll Be Cheaper Than Expected

Well, most of them will — and that includes Nintendo's first-party titles.

According to a report at Vooks, most Wii U launch titles will be priced at $79.95 RRP, far lower than previous estimates.

This includes games like New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which is said to be retailing at the $79.95 price point, as is Batman Arkham City: Armoured Edition, Scribblenauts Unlimited and Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

There is mounting evidence to support that these price points are correct. Just a few weeks ago, EB had been taking pre-orders on Wii games at over $100, but now those prices have changed to reflect the lower RRPs. New Super Mario Bros., for example, is currently priced at $78.

There are exceptions: Call of Duty: Black Ops II, for example, seems to be priced at $109.95. But, for the most part, it seems as though we'll be paying a little bit less than expected for most Wii U games.

Yep. Been waiting for proper deals in steam and they never happen. Its always rubbish like over inflated prices discounted a few percent leaving a still over inflated sale price. They obviously do not want to sell units as only die hard cod fans would even consider paying the sale prices and you would be mad to pay full price . BF3 is usually cheaper and it is a world ahead of cod in all aspects unless your computer is a plank of wood. Cods advantage is its poor graphics allowing it to run on planks of wood making its pricing even more unjustifiable.

To be fair, Super Street Fighter 2/Turbo was a big cartridge megabit-wise, and it used to cost heaps to manufacture the bigger cartridges. I remember paying hundreds for 4 megabytes of memory in the early '90s.

These days it costs no more to manufacture a 200MB game than a 5GB game. You are paying for saturation marketing and extra shareholder profits.

Nintendo seem to be the only ones making progress on game pricing, hopefully other publishers follow! This is great news. Add the fact that stores in Australia always discount and we could end up paying the same price as they do in America.

This is about how much I expected Wii U titles to cost. When the PS3/360 came out, $110 felt absolutely ridiculous, especially when considering the near-grand console prices. $79.95 RRP seems a pretty fair price to pay for new games. I also expect that because of Nintendo's progress on fair pricing, third-party support and innovation, the Wii U will be very successful.

I'm glad to see a lower price-point on Nintendo games, not just for the obvious fact that I'll spend less money, but also because it's a change in pace to what Nintendo traditionally do with their first-party titles. All through the Wii and DS years, first-party Nintendo games stayed at their $99.95 and $69.95 premium RRP's for five years or more. If you wanted the best games, you had to pay top dollar, apparently. If they're launching games at $79.95 now, it shows they're being aggressive with their pricing across the board. Perhaps it'll be to lesser the blow of the price of a second Gamepad.

That's a $20 difference with ozgameshop - it might be enough to make be buy 1 game from the local shop on the release day, and the rest will come from UK. I'd consider buying all of my games locally if they would bring the difference down to $10.

I was going to bring something like this up. . . It's all well and good for Nintendo to lower the initial price for their game titles, but will this lead to a scenario where first party Wii U titles are $79.95 at launch. . . and still $79.95 3 years afterwards. . .

I think it's because of the so-called "long-tail" effect of Nintendo games continuing to sell in bucketloads years after their initial release date. People just keep buying the games at that price so retailers have very little reason to reduce them.

I am almost dead certain Conker's Bad Fur Day did not retail for $149 here. I distinctly remember (because it's the most I've ever paid for a game) that it cost me $114, back when it was still new and loaded on the shelves.

Ha, I remember carntieg a thread of the Sega forums saying this stage was confirmed months ago. (Sega had a stream and Tropical Resort had remixed music) Funny to see it finally confirmed.Not sure why people are complaining about this stage. Tropical Resort was one of the stages that represented Colors (Many Cutscenes were here and it was the center of the game.) It is a much better stage choice then the rumored Asteroid Coaster level.

Story time! I went to an all-girls’ school. My friends and I had that special bond of closeness that apparently comes with synced-up periods and measuring the length of each other’s winter leg hair.
This, obviously, led to a brief era of trying to catch one of the others unawares with the most impressive, most unexpected spank possible. We’re talking sneaking up behind each other in the hallway and laying one down that made the earth shake. If I couldn’t read your palm from the imprint, you weren’t doing a good enough job.